Tabs Panel Selection using a Dropdown

[JJwA7VR8]

Request for a Dropdown menu to quickly and easily navigate the various Tabs Panels

Sidebery is very effective for managing a large number of tabs categorized across different buckets using the Tabs Panels. The auto-snapshots to save this state and restore it easily is also an excellent feature.

However, I currently have like 15 tabs panels, and navigating them using the small icons is extremely slow and cumbersome. It is hard to remember which icon corresponds to which Tabs Panel, so essentially I end up hovering the mouse over various tabs panel icons, waiting for their name to show up and then click through after finding the right one.

Navigation would be much faster and easier if the entire Tabs Panel list with full names could be incorporated into a drop down. There is already a big, nicely visible Dropdown at the top of the sidebar, which displays the Tab panel name (and allows navigating across Bookmarks, Sidebery, History etc.). Maybe the tabs panel list could simply be added to it?

This feature would bring Sidebery close to an almost perfect solution for managing large volumes of tabs efficiently.

[mbnuqw]

That drop-down is part of Firefox and is not editable from addon (except its own option - icon and title).

[JJwA7VR8]

Thanks for replying, I had mentioned that particular dropdown menu as just an example.

However I wonder if there is still the possibility of adding a custom dropdown for tab panels within the bounds of Sidebery itself. Even if not a dropdown, perhaps some other means of navigating / identifying / selecting the tab panels that is not as cumbersome as clicking or scrolling through the icons; as that feels slow once the number of tab panels become large.

This is a great extension with a comprehensive feature set for the use case of managing large numbers of categorized tabs, and this is perhaps the only standout feature I still wish for in terms of achieving that use case. I do understand if that is not possible in the current scope though.

[mbnuqw]

Ok, got it, just like "Hidden panels" element but for all panels.